525460 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://thehimalayantimes.com/business/natural-disasters-since-1900-cost-7-trillion/Vienna, April 19. Natural disasters have caused more than $7 trillion (6.2 trillion euros) in economic damage worldwide since 1900, with floods and storms accounting for nearly 60 per cent of the total, researchers said on Monday. The death toll from such natural calamities — which also include....Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:13:00 +0200thehimalayantimes-7efe3dc9d03bee34d5567f1dd4700ded20160420001300http://www.ouest-france.fr/catastrophes/catastrophes-naturelles-plus-de-8-millions-de-morts-depuis-1900-4172574Plus de 8 millions de personnes sont décédées dans des catastrophes naturelles dans le monde depuis 1900, selon une étude publiée par le Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Tremblements de terre, inondations, tempêtes, volcans, feux… Tous n'ont pas les mêmes impacts.Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:11:00 +0200OuestFrance-b15feb7658c355971dcfc9ffb94a3ffa20160420001100http://www.ellitoral.com/index.php/diarios/2016/04/19/internacionales/INTE-01.htmlRedacción El Litoral. Agencias EFE/DPA. El presidente de Ecuador, Rafael Correa, calculó hoy que la reconstrucción de las zonas afectadas por el terremoto del pasado sábado en Ecuador costará “miles de millones de dólares”, mientras que la cifra de muertos por el desastre se incrementó a 413.Tue, 19 Apr 2016 23:52:00 +0200ellitoral-cdb6672492d82dab6f4146ca59c31b5e20160419235200http://www.diaadia.com.pa/el-pa%C3%ADs/im%C3%A1genes-de-redes-sobre-megaterremoto-y-tsunami-son-falsas-291568El Director General del Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil Panamá, José Donderis, dio a conocer en su cuenta de twitter, unas imágenes que son falsas. Las imágenes muestra y detallan sobre un Cinturon de Fuego capaz de provocar un megaterremoto en el Pacífico y un terremoto al sur de Perú y al norte de Chile.Tue, 19 Apr 2016 23:31:00 +0200diaadia-bbf2c1374f55c6011458786b4910a18720160419233100